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zelda

It's one of those tunes that stays with you forever.

More than that- it pretty much single-handedly transforms the marble from a sphere of glass to an underdog hero the player is rooting for. It really is one of the great themes in video game music, particularly from the 80s.

And that fm towers version is just 👌🏼

knack II

Neat

Yeah this channel is genuinely like a museum. An online museum. Where everything is very clearly labelled and identified and sorted into order. These kind of videos will be invaluable a century from now when people really start to try and preserve all this art forever. In the film industry, the vast vast majority of early movies (like 90%) are lost forever, we'll never get them back, they're gone for all time. So the fact people are already trying to prevent that from happening within the art form of video games is truly great. We may not see it as important now, but future generations will he so glad that people of our time preserved all of this

Keep in mind, a lot of the machines shown don't even have sprites ;-) Apple II line and Atari ST and IBM clone PCs for starters.

The dots also help it feel like the marble is actually rolling instead of just sliding around.

Amiga, Sharp, FM Towers, NES, GBC, GBA, Genesis... all these versions feature pixels in the ball to know how it is rolling

The main designer of it ended up making Crash Bandicoot, Knack and made the specs of the PS4 and PS5.

It "fell off" after six weeks

Looking at all of these ports, I do have to say it's clear to me the NES was in the upper echelon when it came to gameplay smoothness, and the soundtrack was solid (though nothing compared to the FM towns of course!) The Genesis version was oddly terrible, but what's odd is there's a Japanese Megadrive version that is much better.

Yeah, it looks good, looks like it plays well as too.

yeah, it's pretty good

@Cacy Mays The Genesis version definitely has the better color palette, and that is really the ONLY area the NES version lacks. The NES version is actually very smooth while the Genesis version runs a bit choppy by comparison. I mean, not "literally unplayable" by any means, but, having owned the NES version, I remember being told how crappy it was compared to the arcade (which I wouldn't see for another 12 years or so thanks to MAME). The game RUNS better on the NES than it did on the arcade, but definitely looks better in coin-op.

@@jasonlee7816 The fact that it actually runs smoother than the arcade version. Outside of color palette, it's arguable superior.

@@Halbared It adapts rather well, considering it's a trackball game, adapted to an 8 way crosspad

There's a Japan-exclusive version of Marble Madness on the Mega Drive made by Tengen. Indeed, it's pretty much arcade perfect.

Yes, sounds also a bit out of context to me. I think the original POKEY tunes better fit within game’s own style.

games for the FM Towns usually came on CDs so it was probably Redbook audio.

Maybe they could add this to smash bros

@@Nukle0n i thought FM Towns games were on a 3 inch floppy disk because it was a computer while the FM Towns Marty games were on a CD compact disc

@@andreinoooo What pokey? It was not released for atari 400, or 800.

I owned an amiga 1000 in 1986 and marble madness was an amazing conversion. same 68000 as the arcade so easy to port, few sprites , amazing music

Except for that Spectrum port... Geez, it looks like it could have been made on a ZX81 instead. And the CPC version is only 0.01% better because it uses color.

You're absolutely right. This is one of my all-time favourite games, though I only played the Master System and Mega Drive versions. It didn't occur to me until watching this video that there really isn't much difference between those two ports, or indeed any of them.

in the late 1980’s Amiga might’ve had the best port (version) until the FM Towns, Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive, Sharp X68000

did you play Amiga Marble Madness to death 3, 5, 7 times a day, week, month?

@@jasonlee7816 yes I played it for months 1 time a day because it can be finished in 6 minutes lol

That would be Mark Cerny, the consultant of the PlayStation 4 and such. Also been with the industry since the Atari days.

Yes. Ruined that version. Specially for the potential nostalgic buyers of a very old game by 1999 (in that era a 1984 game seemed a paleolithic thing: not many young people played old games then, and a lot less bought these ports).

were you impressed or not impressed with the Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive port?

Arcade is better

Dude Sega Genesis and Mega Drive are the same

@@ilikeminecraft1232 There's a KZfaq video about some Sega Genesis games not released in the USA and it mentioned that the Japanese version is indeed different from the USA version, and is closer to the arcade.

@@ilikeminecraft1232 bruh, you're really confused. Is English not your first language? Literally nobody is saying that the mega drive and the genesis are different consoles. Literally no-one. Why do you keep replying to messages as if people have said that? You've seriously embarrassed yourself here, you've made yourself look like a fool What people are saying is that there was a version of marble madness for the Japanese mega drive which was a COMPLETELY different version to the western version of marble madness. It was a port that was developed by an entirely different team in a different country, built from the ground up with completely different and new code. So there's two versions of the game marble madness for the mega drive (also known as genesis). Just like there were two versions of Tetris for the NES, two versions made by two completely different companies. You've made an utter fool of yourself. Do better next time.

@@ilikeminecraft1232 Wrong.

Sa dude, Sega Genesis and Mega Drive are the same

@@ilikeminecraft1232 They really aren't. The American and European port was written by staffers from and published by Electronic Arts, and the Japanese-exclusive version was written by folks at Tengen and is in fact region free, so it can be played on US Geneses and EU/SECAM Mega Drives. Still think I'm full of it? Here's gameplay footage of the Tengen version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsCoh9mrmb2pg4E.html

but still the console is the same

@@ilikeminecraft1232 Wasn't talking about the console if you were paying attention, Arkan.

@@ilikeminecraft1232 what they're trying to say is that there's two versions of this game for two different regions

I was wondering this too

Just a straight port of the arcade.

why would 2 Genesis ports exist? 2 MD versions in Europe + Japan 1 Genesis version in USA regions

@@jasonlee7816 yea, the Electronic Arts version was released only in North America and Europe in 1991 while the Tengen version was only released in Japan in 1993. The Tengen version is closer to the arcade. A similar situation also happened with Klax on Genesis where the west got a port from Tengen while Japan got a port from Namco. I assume the Japan version is superior

@@vincenzomottola7778 Bruh

i probably wouldn’t expect better from the ST version if only 2 or 3 people worked on it

I know you’re being sarcastic, but it actually got a port that was virtually 100% identical to the arcade soundtrack

@@solarflare9078 :OOO

Yes trackball rules for this.

The Japanese Mega Drive version supports the Mega Drive mouse, which can be used as a trackball

Which one?

@@litjellyfish all most all of them

@@Tretheperson almost all? Are you talking about the isometric perspective? It’s the same in all here

@@litjellyfish yeah

Games [usually] do not have genders

@@FIXTREME, Oh, sorry my mistake. I'll fix it now

@@FIXTREME this one does. It's got balls. It's a dude

@Polus Petrovich There are actual 3d nes games that use red and blue glasses like Rad racer way before this

@Polus Petrovich also there's a difference between a 3d game and a game with a isometric view. Also back in those days you couldn't get 3D without glasses so rad racer is the first nes 3D game

Not really. Isometric. Also it calculates all in 2D so no real 3d world. Still nice 3d like visuals

For my Genesis ROM set I picked the Japan version rather than the international version due to its better soundtrack. 👍

@@cooliecoolster9594 yeah, right. I approve with you.

@@darkerfalcon3747 Sega Genesis and Mega Drive are the same!

@@cooliecoolster9594 Are you in japan

@@ilikeminecraft1232 nobody is talking about the sega cd lol

The problem with that is that I can see a lot of phones being broken as a result of rage taking over after those playing the game fall off the same ledge for the umpteenth time in a row. 🤬

Wow. Its like a groundbreaking classic.

No

Yes

Too bad the GBA Port was Flawed

if it was an incompetent, lazy, rushed, job (port) by either 1, 2, 3 people